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Lyncoya Jackson, born in 1812, also known as Lincoyer, was a Creek Indian child adopted and raised by U.S. President Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel Jackson. Born to Creek ( Muscogee / Red Stick ) parents, he was orphaned during the Creek War after the Battle of Tallushatchee .
Jan 26, 2023 · Lyncoya: The Tragic Story Of Andrew Jackson's Adopted Creek Son. National Archives/Getty Images. By Mina Elwell / Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 9:14 am EST. In 1813, future U.S. president General Andrew Jackson took into his care a Native American child, recently orphaned in an attack that Jackson himself had ordered.
Apr 29, 2016 · Jackson named this “son” Lyncoya (sometimes spelled “Lincoyer”). A monument to his short life, near the site of the lopsided 1813 battle that claimed the lives of most of the people in his...
Jun 16, 2019 · Though Jackson referred to Lyncoya as his son, the adoption doesn't qualify him for a Father's Day card, some historians say.
Oct 5, 2022 · Date of Death: 1828. Lyncoya, a Creek Indian orphan, was raised at the Hermitage, the household of Andrew and Rachel Jackson. A survivor of Battle of Tullushatchee, the baby boy was found clinging to his dead mother’s breast after American forces overwhelmed the small Creek village, killing at least 186 Creek men and taking over 80 prisoners ...
Lyncoya, a Native American Child. In 1813, Andrew Jackson sent home to Tennessee a Native American child who was found by Jackson’s translator on a Creek War battlefield with his dead mother. Named Lyncoya, he may have originally been intended as merely a companion for Andrew Jr., but Jackson soon took a strong interest in him.
Lyncoya was a child of the Red Sticks —a faction of traditionalist Creeks, mostly from the northwestern, or “Upper,” towns of the Creek Confederacy, that was determined to resist white encroachment.
